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By Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint A major player in the re-conquest of New Mexico in the 1690s under Diego de Vargas was Antonio de Valverde Cosío. He became interim governor of the province in 1715 and was named to the post in his own right in 1718….
by Genaro Padilla Gaspar Perez de Villagra published Historia de la Nueva México the same year that William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale was performed at the Globe in London. Villagra’s poem was published in Alcala de Henares, Miguel de Cervantes birthplace, and, as it turns out, is chronologically tucked…
Forgotten Lessons and Missing Links: Adolph Bandelier as a Pioneering Scientific Historian By Rick Hendricks, Ph.D. New Mexico State Historian Introduction Santa Fe, 26 March 1888 Had a very bad night. Suffered a great deal, could not sleep. Walking and lying down equally painful. A sitting posture is the…
2 26 1879 by Michael Ann Sullivan In December of 1917, Mabel Dodge closed her apartment in Greenwich Village, and took a long slow train ride to Lamy, New Mexico to meet her husband Maurice Sterne and her son Paul. Although she planned only a brief vacation, the 38-year-old…
Seeking a Cure, Transforming New Mexico: The Lungers and Their Legacy by Nancy Owen Lewis, Ph.D. Thousands of people flocked to New Mexico from 1880 through 1940 seeking a cure for tuberculosis, the leading cause of death in America. These lungers, as they were called, included artists such as…
1825 The Politician Who Bridged the 37th Parallel By Mark Thompson New Mexicans who use U.S. 285, Colorado 17 and U.S. 24 to get to the Vail Valley of Colorado, or maybe just use La Veta Pass as an alternative to Raton Pass when heading to Denver, know instinctively…
Governor Fernando de Villanueva by Rick Hendricks, Ph.D Fernando de Villanueva y Armendaris was born in San Sebastián in the Spanish Basque province of Guipúzcoa to Fernando de Villanueva y Armendaris and Clara de Irigoyen. Nothing is known of his childhood, but he was probably still a teenager when…
1550 Juan de Oñate was born circa 1550 in the frontier settlement of Zacatecas, Mexico, the son of Cristóbal de Oñate and Catalina de Salazar. His father was a prominent Zacatecas mine owner and encomendero. Juan de Oñate married Isabel de Tolosa Cortés Moctezuma, a descendant of the famous…
In late January 1610, Don Pedro de Peralta reached New Mexico’s first capital city, La Villa de San Gabriel, located on the west bank of the Rio Grande, opposite San Juan Pueblo. Peralta’s origins remain obscure but he was appointed by the viceroy to succeed Juan de Oñate, New…
by Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint Diego Dionisio de Peñalosa Briceño y Berdugo, formerly Spanish provincial governor of New Mexico, ended his days in France, far from his one-time jurisdiction where he offered to lead an armed force to seize New Mexico and all of northern New Spain…
